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Blue River Technology

Agriculture machinery company

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201-500 employees
  • B2B
  • Agriculture
  • Machine Learning
Sunnyvale West, Sunnyvale, CA

Company mission

To create intelligent machinery that solves monumental challenges for our customers.

Top investors

15% employee growth in 12 months

Our take

The global farming market is rigorously growing to keep up with demand. Blue River Technology is a farming equipment maker using computer vision, machine learning, robotics and product management to develop machines that optimise chemical usage and reimagining routine processes within farming.

Acquired by one of the largest names in agriculture - John Deere - Blue River commits to remaining independent in ways of working and culture. The company is also stepping into new-world territory working with AI to combat invasive weeds and other large-scale farming issues. It’s impressive what has been developed by Blue River Technology for an industry that is so heavily relied upon, yet has been slower to digitize. It will be exciting to see how the company develops its idea of autonomous farming into the future picture of the farming industry.

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Benefits

  • Paid Parental Leave and an Adoption Benefit
  • Collaborative and supportive environment
  • Subsidized lunches
  • Generous Paid Time Off and Sick Leave
  • Operating as “mostly remote"
  • Flexible work hours

Company values

  • Innovative - We embrace a challenge that has never been solved before. We innovate with a “first-of-its-kind” mindset
  • Collaborative - Two is ten times better than one
  • Customer Obsessed - Our customers are at the core of all we do
  • Scrappy - We do big things without letting formality get in our way. We stay nimble, have “fire in our belly” and we never give up
  • Accountable - We focus on the right things and we own our part in delivering quality results
  • Integrity - We will do what is right. Always

Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)

Dec 2015

$17m

SERIES B

Mar 2014

$10m

SERIES A

Total funding: $30.1m

This company has top investors

Leadership

Previously worked through several roles at Trimble Navigation most recently as a Business Unit Manager and Director of Business Development. Is also VP Automation & Autonomy at John Deere.

Lee Redden

(Chief Scientist)

Also Chief Scientist of the Intelligent Solutions Group at John Deere. Worked as an Engineering Intern at NASA and in the Robotics Academy as Team Lead at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.

Jobs (2)

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Software Engineering